Liberty through technology and policy.

Keagan Wernicke is an entrepreneur, marketer, and political advocate. He started his entrepreneurial career after unenrolling from college and sold his first company, GroupThreads, an e-commerce platform, in 2017. Keagan currently runs his own digital marketing agency, Moonshot Marketers. As President of FITA, he now advocates for free markets within the technology industry and a culture that respects first amendment principles.

Matthew Bell first entered politics as a grassroots campaign organizer for the Bush/Cheney re-election campaign and intern for the RNC in 2004. He has led a career in the technology industry that spans over a decade, starting in the NY tech scene, and now calls Austin his home. He was the founder of BrewDrop, a mobile tech company which he sold to delivery.com in January 2016. Today he runs a boutique consulting firm where he focuses on helping startups and private equity portfolio companies grow and achieve operational efficiency. He is a rare libertarian voice in the left-leaning technology industry, and is determined to bring about lasting impact.

Nick Virden has centered his life around politics, and after graduating from UT Austin, pursued his passion: programming. Nick was a grassroots organizer, coalition builder, and agent of cultural change after rapidly growing Young Americans for Liberty's UT Austin chapter to 150 members and co-organizing events with both Republican & Democrat student groups. Seeing a lack of diversity of political opinion and diminishing respect for liberty in the tech space, he co-founded FITA to employ his expertise to correct the cultural course.

Nick has long been a champion of startups and entrepreneurs. He is a co-founder and partner at the Genesis Fund and founded the Longhorn Entrepreneurship Agency. Nick Spiller has built a career in the technology industry and currently helps startups with fundraising as the Investor Relations Associate at Capital Factory. Previously, Nick was a Market Launcher for Favor.